"Mari Kimura, violin; Roberto Morales Manzanares, flutes, piano, Veracruz harp. Manzanares' choice of instruments and techniques reveals a panoramic sweep extending back to the vast pre-Columbian civilizations of the Central and South Americas, back across the treks over the Bering Strait, and on rafts over the Pacific, back to Asia and forward again on all circuits. In Kimura's extended violin technique, another look backward, through the veil of the European academy and through the language of gagaku and noh. They finally meet in an illuminated place outside of all location, temporal or spatial." - -Elliot Sharp.